Need advice

[Collette]

Need Advice

[foofighter]

absolutely not. is he high? i dont think FEDEX or UPS covers insurance that much do they? if they do I would go over night on that sucker and insure the crap out of it. I think your friend is a bit off base.

[graves.z]

Ditto on the overnight. If he has proof of the value (receipt, appraisal etc.) and he ships it UPS or FedEx they should be able to insure it for up to either $25,000 or $50,000 (can't remember the domestic limit). The cost is around $.50 to $1.00 per $100 insured so it may cost, but at least it's protected. I would have him talk to some one from the above shippers to verify their policy.

[faded1004]

yea, i am thinking a domestic round trip is cheaper then paying insurance for 5 figure ring? aren't jetblue flights like 50 bucks? or southwest for 69? i forget... but it might be good to try to look into? may be they can also help with setting up the proposal too?

wanted to also mention, the diamond itself if very specific... and there will be multiple verifications and also apprasials i think? just to make sure what you say is yours is yours? i know even with leaving your ring to be cleaned, they look at the ring together to mark your stone to maek sure you know how yours look like when you drop it off?

[skate]

People ship 5K items or more all the time. Heck take a look at all the bikes people ship from sales of vacations.

I wouldn't ship it in a small box, but a rather large box so it won't be easily lost with all kinds of fragile stickers on it. Plus ship I would ship it priority like next day or 2nd day air fed ex or something. I'm sure it will get there no problem with all those things together.

[TCB]

Wow, this is strange, my family is having the same argument, my brother lives in Vancouver and is getting married this summer, my mother who lives in San Diego wants to give my brother some diamonds for the ring, my brother says to just mail the diamonds to Vancouver, I think it’s a bad idea.

Let me know what happens.

[un-kola]

My uncle's late father was a gem merchant.He always said most gems are shipped by insured mail.- Lloyd

[gregOREO]

pay me and ill drive to chicago haha
i ordered my wife a 12k wedding ring and it came through FED EX so as long as you are insured you should be good

[RustyIron]

Sure I would. Much more valuable goods are sent every day. Insure it.

Take a picture of the ring and make sure you have the sales receipt to prove it's value, just in case. Don't label outside of the box with the contents, and make sure it's shipped in a big box that cannot be easily lost or pocketed by a thief.